Elena Baturina entered the list of the most wealthy mothers of the world, which was compiled by Forbes on the eve of her mother’s day, which is celebrated this year on May 9. According to the magazine, the wife of the mayor of Moscow and the mother of two children have a capital of $ 2.9 billion.

On Tuesday, in the Moscow District Court, the testimony of eight -year -old twin sisters Katya and Dasha Lapuzins, dropped from the eighth floor with the adoptive father - captain of the second rank Nikolai Zakharkin, were heard. During the interrogation of the discarded children in court, the accused himself was taken out of the meeting room, Life News reports. Before the meeting, Nikolai Zakharkin tried to question everything that his stepdaughter would say.

The luxury division of the Japanese automobile corporation Toyota, Lexus, has announced that it will release a limited edition of the L-FA supercar. The package, called the Nurburgring Edition, will cost the customer 70 thousand dollars, while the total cost of a car in this series will be 445 thousand dollars. The main value of the package lies in the exclusive carbon body kit and an upgraded gearbox, thanks to which the gear shift speed has been reduced to 0.15 seconds.

The unusual system of identification of ATM customers was developed by specialists of the Polish bank "Pekao BP". To gain access to your account, now it is not at all necessary to enter a PIN code. It is enough to put your palm on a special plate and the ATM "counts" fingerprints, will identify in the event that they coincide with the sample stored in a special data bank, will immediately issue the requested amount, ITAR-TASS reports. One such novelty is already placed in Warsaw.

Elite housing prices in Moscow exceed even the cost of the largest apartment in New York. In the recently published real estate agency Penny Lane Realty, the rating of the most expensive metropolitan apartments, the leader of the list - Penthouse in the area of ​​the patriarchal ponds - was estimated at $ 42.84 million. Despite the fact that the largest apartment in New York has already become legendary costs only $ 28 million, writes "where is itettd.ru.

To date, the British company BP has been spent on the whole about $ 350 million on the elimination of the oil spot in the Gulf of Mexico, the Finmarket agency with reference to the Wall Street Journal reports. At the same time, according to the company representative, about $ 100 million went to grants for injured states and about $ 100 million - for drilling a unloading well, which will prevent oil leakage and isolate the well in the Gulf of Mexico, from which the spill occurs.

At the end of last week, two leading financiers of the country were arrested in Iceland: Khredar Mar Sigurdsson, who headed the largest private bank Kaupthing, and Magnus Gudmundsson, the head of the Luxembourg branch of this bank from 2003 to 2008. Special prosecutor Olafur Hauksson demanded their detention on charges of falsifying documents and violation of the law on shares, writes New Izvestia .

The largest owner of trading real estate - Swedish IKEA in Russia was thrown in corruption. Whether they are confirmed or not - it is not clear, but it is clear that the Swedish company has learned some rules of Russian business almost better than the Russians themselves came to the conclusion of the Vedomosti , having conducted their own investigation.

The Minister of Culture of Italy Sandro Brody refused to come to the opening of the Cannes festival in protest against the display of the satirical documentary, the author of which criticizes the actions of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after an earthquake in Aquille, BBC reports.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown resigned. He himself declared his intention, as Interfax reports during a television point. Then Brown and his family left Dauning Street to report on his decision to the queen. Elizabeth II accepted the resignation and, on the recommendation of Brown, instructed to form a new government to the leader of the conservatives David Cameron.

The bodies of Disoladskaya were found the bodies of seven dead miners. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the headquarters to eliminate the consequences of emergency situations. "The bodies of another seven dead miners were discovered during a rescue operation," the agency’s interlocutor said. He noted that the number of dead increased to 39, the fate of 51 Shakhtar remains unknown.

According to the agency of political and economic communications (APEC) Dmitry Orlov, the era of Yuri Luzhkov in Moscow politics is nearing completion.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill in connection with the death of the bishop of the Yakut and Lensky Zosima, which followed on May 9, appointed the temporarily manager of the diocese of the Archbishop of Irkutsk and Angarsk Vadim. This was announced today by RIA "Novosti" representative of the diocesan administration of the Republic of Sakha.

All veterans who needed housing and registered until March 1, 2005 received apartments, Putin said at a meeting with veterans in Novorossiysk. “I report: this task is completed,” the prime minister said. He added that all regions reported on the execution of the decision on the allocation of apartments to veterans, and now this information is checked.

The investigation is still considering as the main versions of the causes of explosions at the Kuzbass mine "Razdadskaya" - a malfunction of the equipment and violation of the technology of coal mining, a source close to the investigation of the CPC said on Tuesday from Mezhdurechensk . "Currently, the investigation considers the two versions of this emergency as the main ones.